The thing about plants

There's a tender consistency that comes from growing things. You have to be patient. You're training a new way of being, you're coaxing a seed or a plant out of its shell.

Violence Doesn’t Solve Fear

The ways in which we approach our fear has got to change. It is so very very easy to approach fear with the mindset of wiping it off the face of the map, whether it be with drone strikes or with pointing a gun at innocent teenagers. It's so very very easy for me to approach fear with self-policing, obsessive thinking, and trying to eradicate it from my mind. Do they seem disconnected to you? They are very related. Outer change never comes without inner change, first.

Just Keep Following (the heartlines on your hands)

I can focus on ceasing the constant chewing fluctuations of my mind, OR, I can focus on uniting my consciousness at my heart.

How I Use Tarot In My Spiritual Practice

Since I've started offering tarot readings here on the blog, I thought I'd write about how I use tarot in my daily life. For me, tarot is a way that I supplement my current spiritual practice. My current spiritual practice includes daily meditation and yoga asana. I use both of those as a way to …

The Year in Review – A Positive Reflection on 2014

My bestie Carly and I decided to do a little "round up" of our own on all the positive things that have happened or benefitted us this past year. We have a renewed interest in positivity heading forward into the New Year, so we decided we should end our last year on a good note. …

Practice

It's been awhile since I wrote. Some of this is due to the places my mind has wandered lately, down dark and lonely roads. But some of this is also due to being out of practice. My honesty has felt terrifying even to me, so I stopped practicing writing it out publicly and went underground. …

Dust to Dust

Last weekend, I started a yoga teacher training program. A friend had told me about this program just about a month and a half ago. When she emailed me about it, I instantly KNEW. I needed to do this. I had no idea why. I had no idea where I'd get the money from. But, …

25.

Today is my birthday and I am 25 years old. So that means I can do whatever I want in this post. (Because who doesn't do this on their birthday? Source) (Or this, for that matter... Source) But don't worry. I have some thoughts to share too, now that I am a whole quarter century …